Archive for June, 2005

Brush teeth with green tea & wasabi, anyone?

I just realised that I am like, brushing my teeth with green tea and wasabi every morning, noon and night. Bleargh…

Posted by lilian on June 30th, 2005 under General | Comments Off

Hainan Temple

This is one place which I am very proud of. Because it is my ancestors’ association. When I was small, the Kheng Chew Hooi Kuan used to give out prizes to my older siblings for doing well in school. Though I hardly can remember anything, I do know that I had been there once when [...]

Posted by on June 29th, 2005 under Festivals & Religious | Comments Off

Some yummy kueh (cakes)

I just discovered that the area around the Genting coffee-shop in Jalan Delima, Penang has some very fun snacks stalls during afternoon. I had not wander to the place for a long time and therefore are not aware that this place is a goldmine for sweet-tooth like me. They have stalls selling local cakes like [...]

Posted by on June 29th, 2005 under Dessert | Comments Off

Yeemai fuchok (barley and beancurd)

Raw ingredients are shown in the earlier entry. It is nice to have a big pot of dessert to enjoy on hot days. I made the above just now. Real easy to do and tasty too. RECIPE 10 quail eggs, hard boil and peel shell 700 ml of water 1 fistful of barley Rock sugar [...]

Posted by on June 28th, 2005 under Dessert, Recipe | 7 Comments »

Rock sugar, barley and beancurd skin

These are the ingredients for making the very cooling and nice sweet dessert. Barley pearls are believed to be cooling. The Chinese would boil barley with rock sugar and sometimes add dried, sweetened winter melon sticks to make a cooling drink. This is the beancurd skin or fu chok. It is meant to make dessert. [...]

Posted by on June 28th, 2005 under Ingredients | 2 Comments »

Some Japanese food

James of Loopymeals blogged about sashimi and it got me drooling. It so happens that I took several shots of other foods at a Japanese sushi restaurant (you can tell the name by the symbol on the plates) a few days ago. This is the ebiko or fish roes sushi. Very much like caviar, with [...]

Posted by on June 28th, 2005 under Food | Comments Off
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